The Brussels Business Page #4

Synopsis: THE BRUSSELS BUSINESS is a docu-thriller that dives into the grey zone underneath European democracy. An expedition into the world of the 15,000 lobbyists in the EU-capital, of the PR-conglomerates, think tanks and their all embracing networks of power and their close ties to the political elites.
 
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Year:
2012
85 min
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I think we talked

to one newspaper ...

... and there was a radio

program that was interested.

For the rest,

it was silence.

We did not know when the

ERT staff would come back.

But on the tables there were

positioned papers we quoted later on.

But there was also a very

neatly organized archive.

Everything sorted.

So we decided to be fast

and copy as much as possible.

In those documents were

letters from the ERT ...

... and demands from the ER to the European Government ...

... and to the

European Commission.

And there were

the responses.

It really showed us the degree

of access that they had.

And incredible influence that

was clear from those documents.

So when we tracked back

the history of the ERT, ...

... we found that it

started in the early '80s.

ERT represent the first time

that multinational firms ...

... organized purposely and

politically at the European level, ...

... to try to influence

European policy.

In the early 1980s,

Europe was behind.

You had rising Japan and ...

... of course, strong

United States and ...

... Europe was really

concerned about falling behind.

What happened

actually is that ...

... Pehr Gyllenhamar from

Volvo started talking about ...

... trying to find a way to create

a marshall plan for Europe.

Gyllenhamar himself was

known as a political animal.

He loved a limelight.

So Gyllenhamar drew up a list

of heads of multinational firms.

Individuals who might

come together ...

... and come up with some ideas

and actually participate ...

... in finding solutions to

economic problems at the time.

From the Commission, ...

... the member of the Commission who

was really keen was the Belgian ...

... called

Stevie Davignon.

He had diplomatic and

business background ...

... and he could see

the need and he said, ...

... 'If I want to talk to European

industry, who do I talk to?'

What I found out when I was

commisioner for industry ...

... that there was an insufficient contact

inbetween the Commission and the ...

... economic apparatus.

The relation which existed

was a relation with ...

... federations of Industries at,

I would say, the official level.

But not at the level of

the people who were ...

... responsible for a

individual businesses.

And I felt that we

are missing this.

And so we

decided to set up ...

... group of industrialists,

which later became the ERT, ...

... so as to have the capacity

to listen to the CEO's.

There were Agnelli's

who run Fiat in Italy.

There was Wise Dekker who

run Philips' in the Netherlands.

There was Pehr Gyllenhamar

who run Volvo in Sweden.

People from Siemens and big

German chemical companies.

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